Crazy question about MP3 from a grandma: Don't want to spend much, but would like to see it last for at least 6 months?
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Our Grandson, who is just 18 months old, has had these players for at least three months, we have three that we rotate for charging and different music, and has not yet broken one despite being tossed to the floor many times :) Depending on how you put it in the house you may even be able to use the built in flashlight as "studio lights"?
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I have about 1250 average length songs on my 16 Gb thumb drive and it is using about 5.5 Gb of memory. My guess is you would hit the 2,000 song limit at about 8 Gb.
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Hello Eric. This is quite an old device, amazing I got a follow up. This is only a player as far as I know. I do not recall any software that came with it - though it has been 5 years or so.We use it to play on-hold music via a 256mb (yes 1/4 gb) memory stick. Running constant for many years, never a problem. Been a great device.That being said, there is no reason you cannot create a set of mp3 files yourself on a normal computer and then use this device to play them. So many programs to use for such a purpose.
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A good brand regular battery seems to last several hours. Am pretty sure you can add music to it from iTunes. I'm very pleased with mine and have gotten hours of pleasure from it and found it simple to use even though I am up there in age (almost 70).
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Thank you for the tip. I just upgraded my firmware and I am very please with the added bookmark feature. The Sansa Clip was a good little player before the upgrade...now it is darn near perfect!
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I'm waiting for a 128gb flash player that SOUNDS good, and can be loaded with a standard usb cable, and not requiring some proprietary software (read itunes). I test drove a 64gb ipod touch when it first came out, because my 16gb cowon iaudio7 is too small, but it sounded terrible, admittedly it was a stock set of tunes ripped at a low bit rate, but when I wanted to load up my own max bit rate tunes to it, the geniuses at the apple store couldn't fathom why someone would want to listen to tunes they'd ripped themselves, or how to make it happen. Hopefully someone raises the bar on storage space and sound quality, neither of which should be hard at this point. I wish someone would swing for the fences and do a flash 256gb player. I have to admit, I'm anachronistic, in that I don't want internet access, apps, videos, etc. just a gigantic music player that's not disk based (use it on a motorcycle, drop it constantly on the commute), that sounds fantastic and has great battery life. The more things a device does, the performance of each of those things suffers.
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I had a nano 2nd generation until recently when I upgraded to the classic 120. The nano and I had good times and I consireded keeping it for the gym and what not. BUt I love my music so much and my taste varies from hour to hour that I would rather keep the classic with me at all times with my entire music collection and create several playlists within it than keep my nano and not have everything I want at any given moment. So the nano will be inherited by my mom this Christmas. Yep, thats right, some seriously early "Christmas shopping" ;-)
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Also was going to buy, but opted for a very cheap MP3 player ($12.99), $.99 brown noise song (74 mins), and used my iHome portable speaker (~$20)-all from Amazon. Cheaper and I can use the things separately when I want. My husband does have to turn it on when he gets up, but no biggie.
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Can I play back? I record and then listen to it for my minutes of the meeting. Does that answer your question? It is for a non-profit group and I keep it as our permanent record though the file size is huge; I want to say around 128 megabytes. It works great. Let me know if you have any more questions.
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I am not sure. But the lithium polymer battery it uses can last for around 2 years if you charge twice a week. By then, you can easily get a new Zen with better features, higher capacities for the same price you paid for the previous one. Life cycle of mp3 players is quite short, around 2 years.
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I'm going to ask you one more question if you don't mind. If I just want the best player I can find to listen to music and don't care about lists, album art, interfaces or anything else. I just want to put my songs on the player and listen to them in the order they come up, which do you recommend? (Can you tell I'm an old lady and just love to listen to music? LOL!) All that matters to me is good sound, ease of putting songs on the player, number of songs I can add to the player and how long it will play music on one charge. Even the Cowan 160 GB player sounds interesting to me.
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The average 3-5 minute song is about 7-10 MB.So,somewhere around 400.Give or take.
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Yes the CDs and tapes work fine. My parents are elder, they don't have an mp3.
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You're welcome, Rick! Yeah, it's good for mp3s too, lol, and even though that's the main reason I bought it, plus video, I have hardly listened to any music or vids. :)
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I think if want to download audible files to it, you'll just have to convert it to MP3. Hope this helps!
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No problem, it is a very nice player, nice picture, and it will go for 6 hrs or better, hoped that helped, enjoy flight....,
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The MP3 player works but I wouldn't say it's worth the money. Avoid Ebooks and any files longer then 10 minutes. Don't plan on using it for a long time on a charge and the touchscreen is just about pointless. That said it's still a workable MP3 player.